Game-changing speed and efficiency
The powerhouse GPU delivering immersive experiences, extraordinary detail, and fluid animations
The Qualcomm® Adreno™ GPU takes mobile UI, games, and advanced graphics applications to the next level, providing users with stunning visuals and smooth performance while optimizing power consumption. Snapdragon 8 Elite features the most cutting-edge Adreno GPU available with performance and power efficiency improvements to enable the next generation of mobile gaming and video experiences.
Featuring our first-ever sliced-architecture GPU. Our new configuration provides a raw power advantage, with significant generational improvements in performance.
Supercharge AI, mobile UI, games, and graphics
Adreno GPU is the potent graphics processor that contributes to the Qualcomm® AI Engine superior performance. It was designed to quickly render complex geometries for high-performance graphics and rich user experiences, with low power consumption.
Supercharge AI, mobile UI, games, and graphics
Adreno GPU is the potent graphics processor that contributes to the Qualcomm® AI Engine superior performance. It was designed to quickly render complex geometries for high-performance graphics and rich user experiences, with low power consumption.
Superior responsiveness and stunning visuals
Adreno enables enhanced AI processing, next-gen mobile gaming, and high-performance video streaming. It provides brilliant visuals and smooth performance for longer and sustained sessions, while helping to perform AI tasks in high-precision formats.
Level-up the thrill
Snapdragon 8 Elite introduced our first-ever sliced architecture GPU, delivering independent shader processor-based cores for better work distribution and concurrency performance. Plus, Adreno delivers higher clock-speed frequencies and features expanded Graphics Memory, maximizing performance with improved efficiency. Adreno supports 240 frames per second (FPS) mobile gaming, enabling games to match display refresh rates for a desktop-quality experience. Its configuration enhances visuals to desktop levels with faster HDR gameplay, ensuring smooth, immersive graphics with virtually no lag.
Hardware accelerated ray tracing
Game post-processing accelerator
GPU drivers
Gaming FRC
Adreno HDR Fast Blend
Optical flow engine
Smoother computing experiences, across a broader range of applications
Adreno applies its processing power to breathtaking visuals, more comprehensive AI experiences, enhanced mobile UI, and more—across a wide range of devices and use cases.
Unlock the benefits of on-device generative AI
In the Qualcomm® AI Hub, developers can bring their own AI models or chose from a comprehensive model library optimized AI models for Qualcomm and Snapdragon platforms. Allowing them to run directly within devices, providing superior responsiveness, reduced time-to-market, enhanced privacy, increased reliability, and more personalized experiences for users.
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Discover your next favorite device.
Powered by Adreno.
Laptops
Advanced graphics, on-device AI capabilities, unmatched performance, and days-long battery life. Power through your tasks—business or personal—uninterrupted.
Smartphones
Adreno provides mobile platforms with the speed and power for captivating experiences that will transform the way you work, play and live.
XR
Bridge the gap between your physical reality and limitless virtual worlds with devices powered by Adreno.
Frequently asked questions
Adreno GPUs are integrated in the all-in-one design of Snapdragon processors to provide sophisticated rendering capabilities to enable the latest games, user interfaces, and web technologies present in mobile devices today. They have been designed purposely for mobile APIs and device constraints, with an emphasis on performance and efficient power use.
Adreno parallel processing design for AI tasks in high precision formats. In recent testing, Adreno GPU was capable of more than 13 tokens per second for Meta’s Llama 2-7B LLM.
Adreno GPUs are integrated in the all-in-one design of Snapdragon processors to provide sophisticated rendering capabilities to enable the latest games, user interfaces, and web technologies present in mobile devices today.
Play more immersive experiences in bigger worlds in the palms of your hands with image-based Variable Rate Shading Pro. Previously only available on high-end PCs and next-gen consoles, VRS Pro allows developers to better allocate resources to reduce GPU workloads and provide significant enhancements to games—without sacrificing graphical fidelity.
Run HDR games up to 2x faster with Adreno HDR Fast Blend, which accelerates the blending of multiple layers. Dynamic scenes with particle effects like fire, smoke, or snow are seamlessly blended together for the most efficient rendering pipeline and a faster, smoother experience.
Adreno pushes the limit even further as the first to support 240 frames per second (FPS) Mobile Gaming. Allowing games to run as fast as the display can update, this provides a true desktop-quality experience with smooth, rich graphics, and virtually no lag.
The Qualcomm® Game Post-Processing Accelerator gives you the power boost you need to enable desktop-level visual effects maximizing the visual fidelity of your games without sacrificing performance.
Many games use post processing effects such as bloom, depth of field, motion blur and others to enhance visual fidelity and graphical immersion. By building this feature into our GPU, our Qualcomm Game Post-Processing Accelerator increases the efficiency of the building blocks used by these effects, improving their performance by up to 75%.
Hardware Accelerated Ray Tracing leverages the Adreno GPU to process up to tens of billions of ray intersections per second, making the lighting and reflections in your games more realistic and dynamic.
Users can update drivers, optimize performance, and get new features without waiting for an operating system update. It's the first-ever updatable GPU driver downloadable from the Android Play Store.
Run HDR games up to 2x faster with Adreno HDR Fast Blend, which accelerates the blending of multiple layers. Dynamic scenes with particle effects like fire, smoke, or snow are seamlessly blended together for the most efficient rendering pipeline and a faster, smoother experience.
Users can play more immersive experiences in bigger worlds in the palms of their hands with image-based Variable Rate Shading Pro. Previously only available on high-end PCs and next-gen consoles, VRS Pro allows developers to better allocate resources to reduce GPU workloads and provide significant enhancements to games – without sacrificing graphical fidelity.
A powerhouse GPU that’s part of a bigger picture
Find out more about Qualcomm Technologies’ ground-breaking CPUs and NPUs, and how they’re enriching today’s computing experiences.
Qualcomm Oryon™ CPU
One of the most powerful and efficient CPUs ever created.
Qualcomm® Hexagon™ NPU
Revolutionary AI processing power—at 45 trillion operations a second.
Qualcomm Adreno, Qualcomm Game Color Plus, and Qualcomm Snapdragon are products of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. and/or its subsidiaries.
1 Compared to Snapdragon 8 Gen 2.
Battery life varies significantly based on device, settings, usage, and other factors.
